The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented but history is often a helpful guide. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Obama administration, and Andy Card, Secretary of the Department of Transportation for President George H.W. Bush and White House Chief of Staff for President George […] Read more »
Battleground North Carolina: The Suburban Vote
I have been thinking a lot about North Carolina these days. While the former “Blue Wall” states get the lion’s share of coverage, North Carolina is actually the bigger bang for the buck. It is one of just two states — the other is Arizona — to have its presidential […] Read more »
Bernie Sanders Only Had Eyes for One Wing of the Democratic Party
… On Wednesday, Sanders finally capitulated to political reality and withdrew from the race. In doing so, he claimed that “Few would deny that over the course of the past five years our movement has won the ideological struggle.” But is that true? The fact is that a decisive majority […] Read more »
Barack Obama wins the Democratic primary
In the end, the most influential politician of 2020 may be the one who has been the most silent. With Bernie Sanders exiting the race and Joe Biden taking on the mantle of presumptive nominee, the man who hovered quietly over the race for more than a year, Barack Obama, […] Read more »
Five reasons Bernie Sanders lost
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his bid for the 2020 Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on Wednesday. Not only did he lose a second time in a row, but he actually ended up with less support. There are many reasons Sanders fell short to Joe Biden. Here are five of them. […] Read more »
Republicans Pursue Limits on Voting by Mail, Despite the Coronavirus
President Trump and his Republican allies are launching an aggressive strategy to fight what many of the administration’s own health officials view as one of the most effective ways to make voting safer amid the deadly spread of Covid-19: the expanded use of mail-in ballots. … The new political effort […] Read more »